Date: 31 Jan 2006
Time: 1400 hrs
Place: Plaza Singapura
(both) We're in the lift at Plaza Singapura, which inexplicably indicated that it was on floor "6B" when we were on the 5th floor, a lady asked us which floor is the cinema and we helped her press the "7" button.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Sunday, January 15, 2006
kong si mi? part 2
Date: 15 Jan 2006
Time: 1409 hrs
Place: Hong Kong
(both) We're about to cross from Canton Road to Peking Road and this guy, with a shaven head, wearing a windbreaker, asked us something in Cantonese again, something about where to buy something, and he was with his girlfriend.
Time: 1409 hrs
Place: Hong Kong
(both) We're about to cross from Canton Road to Peking Road and this guy, with a shaven head, wearing a windbreaker, asked us something in Cantonese again, something about where to buy something, and he was with his girlfriend.
Thursday, January 12, 2006
kong si mi?
Date: 12 Jan 2006
Time: 1431 hrs
Place: Hong Kong
(both) We're walking down Hollywood Road waiting to cross the street and we get asked directions by a young woman wearing an orange lined jacket. She must have assumed we were natives because she approached us from behind and just blabbered a long string of Cantonese, a language neither of us understand.
Time: 1431 hrs
Place: Hong Kong
(both) We're walking down Hollywood Road waiting to cross the street and we get asked directions by a young woman wearing an orange lined jacket. She must have assumed we were natives because she approached us from behind and just blabbered a long string of Cantonese, a language neither of us understand.
Saturday, January 07, 2006
the bank with the key...
Date: 07 Jan 2006
Time: 2029 hrs
Place: Just outside Mustafa
We're going to do some late night shopping at Mustafa and just as we were going into the entrance a young Chinese man came up to me and asked me, in Mandarin, where the nearest ATM was. He looked very much like an ah-beng and spoke almost no English. He was very polite though. He told me the bank had to be "the one with the key", and I could understand that he meant the POSB because that's the shape of their logo. I told him to go down Kitchener Road and then turn left on Jalan Besar as there's a POSB branch there.
So perhaps there was some good in having those symbols for the government bodies shaped like what they were. Like the PUB symbol looking like a lightbulb, or the HDB logo looking like a house.
Time: 2029 hrs
Place: Just outside Mustafa
We're going to do some late night shopping at Mustafa and just as we were going into the entrance a young Chinese man came up to me and asked me, in Mandarin, where the nearest ATM was. He looked very much like an ah-beng and spoke almost no English. He was very polite though. He told me the bank had to be "the one with the key", and I could understand that he meant the POSB because that's the shape of their logo. I told him to go down Kitchener Road and then turn left on Jalan Besar as there's a POSB branch there.
So perhaps there was some good in having those symbols for the government bodies shaped like what they were. Like the PUB symbol looking like a lightbulb, or the HDB logo looking like a house.
Black Eggs
Date: 07 Jan 2006
Time: 1139 hrs
Place: Mustafa supermarket
(both) We're at Mustafa and some black dude (probably from Africa) wearing a cap and an Argentina football jersey asked us how much eggs were.
$1.90 for ten.
Time: 1139 hrs
Place: Mustafa supermarket
(both) We're at Mustafa and some black dude (probably from Africa) wearing a cap and an Argentina football jersey asked us how much eggs were.
$1.90 for ten.
Thursday, January 05, 2006
just follow where the Chinese are heading?
Date: 05 Jan 2006
Time: 1532 hrs
Place: Dhoby Ghaut MRT
(sorf) Middle aged couple at Dhoby Ghaut MRT asked how to get to Chinatown.
(we get lots of questions at the Dhoby Ghaut interchange. evidently the place is just really badly designed, if after about three years of it being open that people still get lost and confused.)
Time: 1532 hrs
Place: Dhoby Ghaut MRT
(sorf) Middle aged couple at Dhoby Ghaut MRT asked how to get to Chinatown.
(we get lots of questions at the Dhoby Ghaut interchange. evidently the place is just really badly designed, if after about three years of it being open that people still get lost and confused.)
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